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Oxford Medical Alumni Advisory Board

Oxford Medical Alumni Advisory Board (OMAAB) comprises elected members of Oxford Medical Alumni, ex-officio members of the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford, and representatives of the student body. OMAAB meets termly to provide support and guidance on the day to day running of OMA, and to carry out decisions taken at the OMAAB AGM. Become involved.

OMAAB Officers:

President - Professor John Morris

Emeritus Professor of Human Anatomy, Former Director of Pre-Clinical Studies Oxford University and instrumental in running the first on-line examinations in Principles of Clinical Anatomy for the University. His research has always involved structural studies on neuroendocrinology and started at the University of Bristol with studies on the magnocellular neurosecretory system. In Oxford, his lab was the first to demonstrate that the vasopressin and oxytocin genes can undergo somatic crossovers leading to the production of hybrid peptides which accumulate in the rough endoplasmic reticulum, and also to provide an unequivocal demonstration of dendritic secretion of neuropeptides. Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh's College.

Professor Alastair Buchan - Dean of the Oxford Medical School, Head of the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford. Professor of Clinical Geratology, Oxford University Hospitals Trust. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Mr Martin Burton - Director of the United Kingdom Cochrane Centre, Consultant Otolaryngologist, Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Oxford and Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at Balliol College.

Dame Fiona Caldicott - Chairman of the Oxford University Hospitals Trust. Dame Fiona is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist. Former President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Principal of Somerville College, Oxford.

Professor John Reid - Qualified through the Oxford Medical School. Former Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, and previously Regius Professor of Materia Medica, at the University of Glasgow.

Professor John Stein - After pre-clinical studies at New College, I trained as a clinical neurologist at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, Leicester and Oxford. I was appointed Fellow and Tutor in Medicine at Magdalen College in 1970. Now Emeritus, I still teach neuroscience a bit, and I lecture frequently to Schools and Societies on why neuroscience is so interesting.

Dr Lynn Williamson - a graduate of the University of Oxford Medical School she is a Rheumatologist at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon.

Professor Christopher Winearls - qualified in Medicine from the University of Cape Town, before becoming a Rhodes Scholar at Keble 1975-8. I obtained my DPhil in transplantation immunology in the Nuffield Department of Surgery, supervised by Prof P J Morris, FRS. Now Associate Professor of Medicine, Oxford University and a half-time consultant Nephrologist, Oxford Kidney Unit.